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BALB TIE.

No. 302,009. y V Patented July 15,' 1884.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN S. LENOX AND 'JACOB HENTZ, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOBS TO THE WASHBURN St MOEN `MANUFACTURING COMPANY,

OF SAME PLACE.

BALE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302,009, dated July 15, 1884.

Application led Januaiy 21, 1884.- (No model.)

,To all whom it may concer.-

Be it known that We, EDWIN S. `LENOX and JooB HEN'IZ, both of the city of Worcester,

in the countyof Worcester and State of Mas-- sachusetts,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bale-Ties; and We do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in whieh- Figure l represents atop orplan View of the manufactured endof our improved baletie. Fig. 2 represents a side view of the part shown inFig. l; and Fig. 3 represents the manufactured end .of the tie shown in Figs. l and 2, combined with the other free end of the tie,

which is made straight, and in the process of` baling is passed through the eye at the manufactured end of the' tie and bent back and twisted upon itself.

Our invention 4relates toa certain improve ment upon the invention in wire bale-tie fastening's for which Letters Patent of the United States were granted to Charles Brown, dated May 7, 1872, andnumbered 126,515; and it consists in the interposition of one or vmore additional coils of the wire in the manufactured end of the tie, for purposes tobe here-y inafter stated. A

To enable those skilled in the art to which our invention belongs to make and use the same, we will proceed to describe it more in detail. I

In the drawings, A represents the manufactured end of the tie, and B the straight and free end, which is combined with the endA, after the tie has been passed around the bale, by passing it through `the eye or loop and 4o then bending it back andtwis'ting it with the body of the tie in the manner shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. Y

Our improved bale-tie may be made inthe following manner; After the wire has been 45 straightened from the coil, it is cut into suitable lengths, as Inay be desired, and then three or more complete circular. coils, a, are formed in it by a machine adapted for the purpose at a suitable distance-some two or three inches from one end-to make the large eye C. The end D, extending from one ofthe.

coils a, is then intertwisted withI the body of the tie, as shown in the drawings, and the tie is finished and ready for use.

Those skilled in the art to which our invention belongs will readily appreciate the value of our'improvement, and see lthat by the interposition of oneor more additional coils in the manufactured end of the tie patented to the said Brown, the loop or eyewill be ren- Y dered much stiffer and stronger, and a larger eye or loop maybe used, and when the tie, after having been applied to the bale, is subject to great strain or tension, the eye or loop made of three or more coils of the wire ,-will remain firm,l and "will not draw down and abrade the Wire passed through it, as is liablev to happen when the loop or eye is made of only two coils of the wire.

Having described our invention in baleties, what we claim therein as new and oi' our invention, and desire `to secure byy Letters Patent, is-

l.4 A wire bale-tie provided at one end with an eye or loop, C, made of three or more coils,

. a, of the wire, the projecting end D being intertwsted with body of the tie, asshown, and the other end, B, of the tie being left free and straight, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the loop C, made of three or more coils, a, of the wire, the projecting end D being intertwisted with the v body of the tie, as shown, of the free and straight end B, in substantially the manner shown in Fig. 3 ofthe drawings. l

' EDWIN S. LENOX.

' JACOB HENTZ.

f Witnesses:

J oHN C. DEWEY, GEORGE T. DEWEY. 

